Native installation of applets, themes and extensions is in the works for Cinnamon and I'm retiring this PPA. It won't cause any problems for you but you have to update and install Cinnamon stuff via the website from now on until the new features arrive in Cinnamon.

If you update anything (you'll have to soon!) installed with this PPA - it's a good idea to delete it first from your system.

EXAMPLE

You want the newest coverflow extension - open Synaptic and uninstall the coverflow extension package ("cinnamon-extension-coverflow-alttab"), then download it via the Cinnamon Spices website and install it again manually.

--Introducing Cinnamon Extras, a PPA for Cinnamon themes, applets and extensions. The PPA is so you no longer have to download, extract and move folders around every time there is a new version of your theme/applet/extension, Cinnamon Extras takes care of that.

Currently in the PPA (click on package names to see their cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com profile):

It's not really a risky PPA, it just contains Cinnamon add-ons and they have all been tested before and after being added (not to see if they break stuff but to see if they work). It doesn't contain Cinnamon itself or interfere with system files.

Thank you for this thread. That’s all I can say. You most definitely have made this forum into something special. You clearly know what you are doing, you’ve covered so many bases. Thanks!

No sorry I had to recreate the PPA because I lost my pgp key during a system re-install. so uncheck the old PPA in software sources and add again as per the first post. The packages are the same and changing repo won't have any impact on those (unless you purge the old repo instead of just deleting it).

So, this one must die: ppa:bimsebasse/cinnamon-extras

This one will live: ppa:bimsebasse/cinnamonextras

Thank you for this thread. That’s all I can say. You most definitely have made this forum into something special. You clearly know what you are doing, you’ve covered so many bases. Thanks!

Coming this weekend - I quickly found it would be best to include scripts that delete old installs in the packages, so I'm getting that sorted first and then I start mass-adding applets, it takes about 2 and a half minute for me now per applet so it's not a lot of work.

Should be sorted this weekend.

Thank you for this thread. That’s all I can say. You most definitely have made this forum into something special. You clearly know what you are doing, you’ve covered so many bases. Thanks!

bimsebasse wrote:Coming this weekend - I quickly found it would be best to include scripts that delete old installs in the packages, so I'm getting that sorted first and then I start mass-adding applets, it takes about 2 and a half minute for me now per applet so it's not a lot of work.